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We're building a statue of Aaron Swartz


We're constructing a statue, in memory of a hero of the free web.

aaronsw(1986–2013) was a brilliant programmer, writer, and activist whose work profoundly shaped the digital world. He was part of the founding team of Reddit, he developed the RSS web feed format, the technical architecture of Creative Commons, the website framework web.py, the lightweight markup language format Markdown, and created “Open Library”- a project by the Internet Archive. youtu.be/-OhyBJxg9RA A fierce advocate for open access to information, Aaron's commitment to making knowledge freely available made him a target.

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